VISION ON SOUND
231 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 16 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingADVENTURES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY TELEVISION... AND BEYOND...!Where the television of the past… …becomes the conversation of the present.Join us as we take a nostalgic journey through the television vaults, and my guests and I investigate, discover, enjoy, and chat about a whole world of televisual delights, with some occasional nonsense thrown in from time-to-time.
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VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 101 - TX SEPTEMBER 11 2022 - VoS AT WHOOVERVLLE 13
September 11, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 11th 2022 Two former guests on VISION ON SOUND happen to be the chief movers and shakers behind WHOOVERVILLE, an annual DOCTOR WHO convention held in DERBY in September, and this year they were kind and supportive enough to ask VISION ON SOUND to join them and take part. So, we packed up our trusty FAB GEAR and took VISION ON SOUND on the road for the very first time to do a couple of interviews in front of a live audience in...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 100 - TX SEPTEMBER 4 2022 - THAT BBC 100 ONE SHOW LIST
September 04, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 4th 2022 I didn’t want to make a big deal of this being the one hundredth edition of VISION ON SOUND but, given that another broadcasting institution is also celebrating its own version of a century, I invited WARREN CUMMINGS back to pick through the list of BBC TV favourites as chosen by the viewers of THE ONE SHOW, so we got to crank up our celebratory FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL time engines, and found rather a lot to talk abou...
VISION ON SOUND TRAILER
August 31, 2022 23:00 - 30 seconds - 947 KBVISION ON SOUND - A radio show in which my rotating roster of guests and I have occasionally thoughtful, often insightful, and sometimes downright wacky conversations all about all sorts of things prompted by our love of old television and much, much more. Broadcast on SUNDAY EVENINGS at 7:00pm on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL - Internet radio broadcasting from the heart of Manchesterford - and available afterwards here on Anchor FM.
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 99 - TX AUGUST 28 2022 - A QUIZZER'S GUIDE TO TV QUIZZING
August 28, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 28th 2022 This is a show that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, ever since our guest and regular contributor, STEVE HATCHER appeared on the ITV quiz show THE CHASE – and, to be honest, I possibly thought about it even earlier than that, when he first let us know that he was GOING to be on that show. That his appearance was such a success for his team - so much so that it led to a certain amount fleeting notoriety in impre...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 98 - TX AUGUST 21 2022 - LISA ON MODERN TV
August 21, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 21st 2022 In a rather scratchy throated edition of VISION ON SOUND, happily recorded before the lurgy struck, tonight’s interview is with LISA PARKER from THE ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST, and we had a little chat that was supposed to be about the archive TV watcher’s take on MODERN TELEVISION, although, first of all, we discussed the possible myth of the existence of any true Golden Age of television, before moving on, via a detou...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 97 - TX AUGUST 14 2022 - UNDERMIND & OTHER 1960s TV
August 14, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 14th 2022 WARREN CUMMINGS is back again this week, as we are both transported back to the mid-1960s to have a chat about the obscure Science-Fiction adventure series UNDERMIND, an eleven part ABC television series starring Jeremy Wilkin and Rosemary Nichols. As ever with us, this sets us both off on a unexpectedly roundabout stroll through the television universe, and so, in the next hour we’ll also touch upon the work of Robert...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 96 - TX AUGUST 7 2022 - PAUL ON PHYSICAL MEDIA
August 07, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 7th 2022 These days I’m often told that, when it comes to my thoughts on things, and the emphatic stances I tend to take on events that seem not to bother other people in quite the same way, or, indeed, vice-versa, I need to loosen up a little, and learn to be a little more flexible. This seems to be especially pertinent when it comes to the small matter of the acquisition and storage of the television series which I have accumul...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 95 - TX JULY 31 2022 - WATERMAN, BOWLES, AND TV LOCATIONS
July 31, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 31st 2022 Our returning co-presenter this week is once again the ever popular WARREN CUMMINGS, joining me for another meander around the highways and byways of whatever and wherever our conversations prompted by the topic of television may take us, whether it’s up to the minute stories from the news, or fond memories of television shows made before either of us were various twinkles in a meaningful look or three. This week our jou...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 94 - TX JULY 24 2022 - PODCASTING & DOCTOR WHO
July 24, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 24th 2022 This week we welcome back those old friends of the show LISA PARKER and ANDREW TROWBRIDGE from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST for what, when we started out, was supposed to be another of our random chit-chats about telly, but ended up being something completely different indeed. It’s no secret that a lot of fans of archive television, myself included, admit that their gateway to this perhaps peculiar fascination for the ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 93 - TX JULY 17 2022 - SITCOM MOVIES
July 17, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 17th 2022 This week, STEVE HATCHER returns for another in our short series of chats about the cinema films based upon popular television series. This week, STEVE wanted to talk a little about the movies based on TV comedies, and chose DAD’S ARMY, AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, THE LIKELY LADS, WHOOPS APOCALYPSE, and IN THE LOOP as five of his personal favourites to take down from the shelves and share with you, so let'...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 92 - TX JULY 10 2022 - PAUL'S TV RECOMMENDATIONS
July 10, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 10th 2022 A few weeks ago, you may remember, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself from THE SHY LIFE PODCAST who is one of our regular visitors to us all here at VISION ON SOUND was trying to persuade me of the delights of one of his favourite shows, SEX AND THE CITY and, because I’m always open to fresh new ideas about some of the TV shows that I’ve never personally got around to watching, he thought he might like to try again with ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 91 - TX JULY 3 2022 - WARREN GETS RANDOM AGAIN
July 03, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on July 3rd 2022 This week we welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS once again for another of our loosely television-themed chats where we pick a few topics out of our random grab bags of recent thoughts and musings and see just where they take us. So this week, prompted by THE PROFESSIONALS we chat a little about cars and Mr Hudson, look back at the career of JUNE BROWN, lurk in the wings of vaudeville, mull over the dark side of certain characte...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 90 - TX JUNE 26 2022 - TV AT THE MOVIES Part 1
June 26, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 26th 2022 This week we welcome back one of our regular contributors, the encyclopaedic and telly fact-filled mind that belongs to STEVE HATCHER, who has suggested that we might want to talk about the movie spin-offs and adaptations of television series that used to feature prominently in the cinemas in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, several of which proved to be very successful, and some of which were decidedly less so. Some...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 89 - TX JUNE 19 2022 - TWIN PEAKS
June 19, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 19th 2022 This week we welcome back SANDY McGREGOR and TIM BOURNE for another in our occasional peeks at series that maybe fall under the banner of perhaps the more surreal end of the television drama spectrum. After our previous examinations of both THE PRISONER and THE SINGING DETECTIVE, a couple of months ago, SANDY announced that he was planning to revisit both of the 1990s series of TWIN PEAKS and he just happened to mention ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 88 - TX JUNE 12 2022 - TERRY NATION TO TELESCOPES
June 12, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 12th 2022 This week we welcome back LISA and ANDREW from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST who have agreed to be subjected to our FAB RADIO RANDOMISER and be guided on a long journey through the universe of television via a series of random topics to see just where the conversation takes us. This week, with the simple prompt of the words TERRY NATION, we will flit via THE AVENGERS, skirting around the world of ITC, and television Sci...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 87 - TX JUNE 5 2022 - WARREN'S TV BINGO
June 05, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 5th 2022 Some regular listeners to our little show will realise that I’ve been shifting the schedules around and making vague excuses in recent episodes because plans have had to change due to illness, so it’s with great joy that we have WARREN CUMMINGS back this week after his latest battle with the Covids. Because there hadn’t been much opportunity for him to prepare anything for this programme, I decided to use another of those pr...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 86 - TX MAY 29 2022 - SATC
May 29, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 29th 2022 One of the many series that PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is an enthusiastic fan of is the HOME BOX OFFICE series SEX AND THE CITY, which ran for six seasons, which started in the last couple of years of the last century, and continued through into the first few years of the twenty first, and has since been revived for two feature films, and has now resurfaced in the spin-off series AND JUST LIKE THAT which, he assures me, d...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 85 - TX MAY 22 2022 - ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
May 22, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 22nd 2022 Ground floor: street level, front door and parking lots, stairs and keyboard accessing, mailboxes and tat. Going up. First floor: studio, magic happening. Songs, chat, ads, plugs, microphones and chairs. Going up. Second floor: this week, Lisa and Andrew back, for fun-filled chattering about Are You Being Served? Going down PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 84 - TX MAY 15 2022 - HAMMER HOUSES ON TV
May 15, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 15th 2022 Vision On Sound is currently, like many, a House of Disease, so several of our planned programmes have had to be postponed as our guests recuperate, and we hope that they will get well soon. Luckily for me, and the show, and hopefully all of you out there, I can usually rely on one or two of our regular visitors to step up at short notice and find something television-related for us to talk about, so that we don’t have to ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 83 - TX MAY 8 2022 - SAPPHIRE & STEEL
May 08, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on May 8th 2022 "All the regulars will be handling the forces controlling your reception. Traditional heavy-hitters may not be used as they cause strife. The usual suspects are available. Paul, Lisa, Andrew, Ben, Toby, Andy, Warren, Sandy, and Martin. Warren and Martin have been assigned." WARREN CUMMINGS is back and very kindly ventures into his personal nightmares to help me to talk about the television series SAPPHIRE AND STEEL, which ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 82 - TX MAY 1 2022 - THE RULES OF TV CRIME DRAMA
May 01, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 24th 2022 This week’s show started off, appropriately enough, as something of a mystery, as I wasn’t quite sure when we started off what SANDY McGREGOR was going to take as our topic for our latest television-themed prompt, so it was quite pleasant to find out that he really wanted to investigate the tropes, clichés, and golden rules that are used in the course of the average television crime drama, and, whilst I know crime drama ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 81 - TX APRIL 24 2022 - THE AVENGERS
April 24, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 24th 2022 A little over sixty years ago, a television series began that would, in many ways, come to encapsulate a particular view of nineteen sixties Britain that never really went away. It was so popular in certain countries that this particular image of Britain and the British seems to have stuck in their minds and shaped their perception of us ever since. Or perhaps one version of it has, anyway, because THE AVENGERS, the ser...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 80 - TX APRIL 17 2022 - SHARPE
April 17, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 17th 2022 The subject of tonight’s conversation. SHARPE, based upon the novels by Bernard Cornwell, set during the Napoleonic Wars, and starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, which was one of those long format film series that appeared on ITV for sixteen feature-length stories across about fifteen years from 1993 to 2008 that somehow I was never particularly drawn to, and so I never actually saw one. Luckily, our regular contribut...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 79 - TX APRIL 10 2022 - TV AS THERAPY
April 10, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 10th 2022 Today’s theme is a topic I’ve been wanting to address for a while now on the programme, as I kind of think that it’s something that is quite important to talk about, so we’re going to take television and its relation to mental health, and, to a lesser extent, television as therapy, as our starting point. This not a subject we wish to take lightly, but neither is it something we want to be too heavy-handed about, but I’m...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 78 - TX APRIL 3 2022 - THE SINGING DETECTIVE
April 03, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 3rd 2022 Dennis Potter is considered by many to be one of the all-time great playwrights who was working in British Television during the twentieth century, and for many fans of his work, his masterpiece if you will, standing alongside such memorable productions as PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR, BLACKEYES, the NIGEL BARTON PLAYS, CASANOVA, BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE, BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS and so many others, as well as t...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 77 - TX MARCH 27 2022 - PAUL'S TV COMEDY CHOICES
March 27, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 27th 2022 This week I wanted to try something out for the show that I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time. Such a long time, in fact, that it’s rather become a bit of a redundant idea. You see, a few years ago, I thought it might be fun to try writing a kind of “Collector’s Guide” to what might make up the perfect collection of television for anyone who’s new to having an interest in this Archive Television stuff we talk ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 76 - TX MARCH 20 2022 - PC GEORGE DIXON
March 20, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 20th 2022 Evenin’ all! That loveable scamp WARREN CUMMINGS is on the run from his RASPBERRY MIVVI AND A FOOT LONG DOG classic movie podcasting duties again, and has turned up in the FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL TARDIS this week, bringing all of his cinema-related ways with him to infest our cosy telly-themed world here on VISION ON SOUND. But that’s actually quite handy because, for once, this week we were planning to look at a film ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 75 - TX MARCH 13 2022 - LISA'S COMFORT TV
March 13, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 13th 2022 A few months ago, I was joined by PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, for an episode in which we discussed his ideas of what he thought of as COMFORT TELEVISION, and, because I enjoyed that episode so much, and, perhaps, because I think that exploring aspects of good mental well being perhaps ought to be one of the things we occasionally try to do more of with this little show of mine, I asked during that show if anyone else fa...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 74 - TX MARCH 6 2022 - PAUL SAVES NEIGHBOURS
March 06, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 6th 2022 With a little bit of a shimmy and a shuffle to our schedules, we’ve got PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI back this week in a natter we recorded relatively recently in VISION ON SOUND terms, because, when we arranged one of our regular meet-ups to record a show, we were planning on talking about something completely different, which, hopefully, we’ll be able to return to another time. When we came to record, circumstances in t...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 73 - TX FEBRUARY 27 2022 - QUATERMASS 2 & 1984
February 27, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 27th 2022 In last week’s VISION ON SOUND, WARREN CUMMINGS joined me to talk about NIGEL KNEALE’S classic 1950s creation QUATERMASS II starring JOHN ROBINSON in a beautifully crafted and ambitiously epic tale of paranoia, conspiracy, human self-deception, and an alien invasion by stealth and guile played out in front of the backdrop of a post-war Britain still held in the grip of rationing, conformity, and cold-war fears. By th...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 72 - TX FEBRUARY 20 2022 - QUATERMASS 2
February 20, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 20th 2022 Regular listeners to the programme will already be aware of how big a fan of QUATERMASS I am. Honestly, just give me the slightest opportunity and I’ll find a way to steer the conversation back to NIGEL KNEALE’S classic 1950s creation at the drop of a guided meteorite, but, whilst I’ve talked quite a lot about the brilliant QUATERMASS AND THE PIT over the years, sometimes I’ve kind of neglected the other fully survivi...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 71 - TX FEBRUARY 13 2022 - THE BBC
February 13, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 13th 2022 The BBC has been coming in for quite a lot criticism lately, and seems to have been targeted by the forces of darkness currently inhabiting the corridors of power so, as we Archive TV fans generally tend to be quite big fans of a lot of what the BBC do, I thought I might grab one or two of the regulars to ask them about what they think about the BBC as an institution, warts and all. And so I talked first to STEVE HAT...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 70 - TX FEBRUARY 6 2022 - SANDY ON CHRISTMAS VIEWING
February 06, 2022 20:00 - 58 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on February 6th 2022 Regular listeners will be more than happy to discover that my old pal SANDY McGREGOR is back this week to talk about how we watch telly these days, and we thought the best way to do that was to take a look at our personal choices of viewing during the most recent Festive Season. I have to be honest with you and say that these days that particular time of the year kind of passes me by, but I think that enough time has ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 69 - TX JANUARY 30 2022 - TV ADVERTISING
January 30, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 30th 2022 This week I had about thirty seconds to tell you all about the minty fresh goodness that’s in tonight’s episode before the time engines launched us on our way. Featuring the lovely fresh combination of a sprinkle of LISA, and a soupcon of ANDREW, that pair of the very best ingredients that make up the cool, fizzing chocolatey goodness that is the glass and a half of full fat content that goes into every one of their R...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 68 - TX JANUARY 23 2022 - THE SANDBAGGERS
January 23, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 23rd 2022 Today we welcome back the ever popular WARREN CUMMINGS to present another in our recurring occasional series looking at SPY DRAMAS on TV, and this time we’re looking at one of his favourites, THE SANDBAGGERS, a series made by YORKSHIRE TELEVISION during the turbulent political power-shifting period of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and which starred ROY MARSDEN as NEIL BURNSIDE and RAY LONNEN as WILLIE CAINE. For a s...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 67 - TX JANUARY 16 2022 - THE PRISONER
January 16, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 16th 2022 This week, SANDY McGREGOR returns to VISION ON SOUND and introduces his very good friend TIM BOURNE who is a huge fan of the 1967 ITC classic adventure series THE PRISONER starring PATRICK McGOOHAN in perhaps his most iconic role as Number ("I am NOT a number") Six in this complex tale of espionage, imprisonment, multiple escape attempts, and a long, dark look inside the human condition, a series that has cast an enorm...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 66 - TX JANUARY 9 2022 - BOON & BEIDERBECKE
January 09, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 9th 2022 This week, VISION ON SOUND is drawn towards 1980s regional dramas the titles of which start with the letter B, as our Canadian Correspondent RICK LAWLOR returns to talk about a British show that he's currently enjoying rewatching, BOON. BOON was a highly successful CENTRAL TELEVISION adventure series made for the ITV Network which ran for seven series and which featured the misadventures of the motorcycle-loving former...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 65 - TX JANUARY 2 2022 - REVIEW OF THE VOS YEAR
January 02, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 108 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 2nd 2022. A Happy New Year to you all as we plummet headlong into the space year 2022 with another action-packed year of our show. Well, perhaps not exactly action-packed, but I think we’ve certainly got a few exciting tasty morsels to tempt you with over the coming weeks, and they’re not all of them simply the stale leftovers from our Christmas hamper. This time last year, Sandy and I gathered here at VoS HQ and discussed the ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 64 - TX DECEMBER 26 2021 - THE ARCHIVE GENIE
December 26, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 26th 2021 Once again I find myself on Boxing Day sorting through the mountains of boxes that are gathering dust here at VISION ON SOUND HQ, and amongst all of the tat and debris, I found a filth-covered old bottle and, because it is panto season, I gave it a rub with the sleeve of my jumper. That was disappointing, but this did set me thinking. What if it had been a magic bottle? And what if I had found a genie trapped inside?...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 63 - TX DECEMBER 19 2021 - BEN BAKER ON CHRISTMAS TELLY
December 19, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 19th 2021 Today’s guest is, as previewed briefly on last week’s show, the one and only BEN BAKER who, as he may have mentioned, is the author of several books about Christmas television, and is someone who is fast becoming the go-to person if you want to find out all sorts of trivial and detailed information about just the sort of television programming that has been lurking in the schedules around this time of year since the d...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 62 - TX DECEMBER 12 2021 - SANDY & MARTIN'S TRADITIONAL MILDLY FESTIVE CHRISTMAS CHAT
December 12, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 12th 2021 This week I’ve got SANDY McGREGOR with me for our now traditional pre-Christmas mildly festive natter (Well, we did one of these last year so it counts, and that’s how traditions start), even though we’re a bit earlier with this year because I’ll be doing another Christmas show next week as well, you lucky people. So, as we don our festive jumpers to sweat through another July afternoon, we are transported back to a ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 61 - TX DECEMBER 5 2021 - PAUL'S COMFORT TV
December 05, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 5th 2021 This week’s show is, I suppose, a bit of an experiment in which we take the starting point of COMFORT TV and see just where that conversation may take us. My first guest for this new (and perhaps recurring) strand is PAUL CHANDLER, a SHY YETI rather than a guinea pig or white mouse, and I hope that you enjoy the next hour as you all snuggle up in your blankets, huddle around your crystal sets, and maybe give some thoug...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 60 - TX NOVEMBER 28 2021 - GERRY ANDERSON'S "UFO"
November 28, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 28th 2021 We welcome back WARREN CUMMINGS who has moved from his usual VISION ON SOUND comfort zone to move across into the realms of science-fiction, and has joined me to discuss Gerry Anderson’s popular live-action series called UFO which was, and is, a television favourite we both share, and which graced our screens with a vision of the future over fifty years ago, involving the groovy future fashions of 1980, purple wigs, s...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 59 - TX NOVEMBER 21 2021 - BOB BAKER TRIBUTE
November 21, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 21st 2021 In a change to another earlier planned episode, in this week's VISION ON SOUND I welcome back STEVE HATCHER, who got in touch because he wanted to contribute his own tribute to the television writer BOB BAKER with whom he was acquainted, and who recently passed away. As you know, I'm always happy to embrace an idea for a programme whenever it's suggested, so we got together on a Thursday morning in November and had ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 58 - TX NOVEMBER 14 2021 - TOBY HADOKE AND CORONATION STREET
November 14, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 14th 2021 In this week's VISION ON SOUND I am very pleased to welcome back an old friend of the show, who’s taken some time out of his extraordinarily busy schedule to talk to me, the actor, comedian, prolific podcaster and all-round good egg, TOBY HADOKE. It’s been around a year since we last spoke to TOBY on VISION ON SOUND and for him it has indeed been quite an astonishing year. He’s launched a trio of podcasts looking at ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 58 - EXTENDED CUT - TOBY HADOKE
November 14, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBThe original version of this episode was first broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 14th 2021 In this week's VISION ON SOUND I am very pleased to welcome back an old friend of the show, who’s taken some time out of his extraordinarily busy schedule to talk to me, the actor, comedian, prolific podcaster and all-round good egg, TOBY HADOKE. It’s been around a year since we last spoke to TOBY on VISION ON SOUND and for him it has indeed been quite an astonishing year. He’...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 57 - TX NOVEMBER 7 2021 - IAN FAIRBAIRN
November 07, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on November 7th 2021 Internet artist and archive television fan ANDREW-MARK THOMPSON returns to guide us through the paper archives of the late actor IAN FAIRBAIRN (1931 - 2014) which he was given by the actor himself after they met when Andrew was working on the TIMESLIP website back in the day. IAN's surviving scripts and other documents give a fascinating insight into the television working life of a jobbing actor from playing bit parts...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 56 - TX OCTOBER 31 2021 - MAGIC
October 31, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 31st 2021 Be it ABRACADABRA or HOCUS POCUS, the preposterous worlds of prestidigitation or magic and magicians used to have a big part to play in the television schedules, and despite the objections from certain quarters about these dark arts being used for entertainment purposes, our evenings would once feature such household names as DAVID NIXON, ALI BONGO and PAUL DANIELS to entertain and delight us with their demonstrations ...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 55 - TX OCTOBER 24 2021 - MAIGRET
October 24, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 109 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 24th 2021 Inspired by their purchase of the recent blu-ray release of the entire 1960s BBC series, LISA PARKER and ANDREW TROWBRIDGE from the ROUND THE ARCHIVES PODCAST return to talk about MAIGRET in his various television incarnations, but mostly the RUPERT DAVIES version. That said, sometimes the conversation train from VISION ON SOUND HQ heads off in several completely different directions, so all sorts of series get at leas...
VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 54 - TX OCTOBER 17 2021 - FRANKIE HOWERD
October 17, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBFirst broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 17th 2021 Returning guest expert STEVE HATCHER returns to the show to talk all about the life and career of the late FRANCIS ALICK HOWARD, who was far better known as the actor and comedian FRANKIE HOWERD, who is probably best known on television for UP POMPEII! which returned to television in several versions, alongside a feature film version. This wide-ranging conversation, however, covers many of the other series and pilots t...